Melatonin is sometimes used in children who have sleep onset insomnia.

This suggests that the process of sleep onset is a feedback loop with circuits running in both directions.

With a mean follow-up time of 3.7 years, long-term medication was effective against sleep onset problems in 88% of the cases.

A regular waking time in the morning strengthens the circadian function and can help with sleep onset at night.

Attaining an earlier sleep onset, in a dark room with eyes closed, effectively blocks a period of phase-delaying light.

This syndrome results in symptoms of evening sleepiness, an early sleep onset, and waking up earlier than desired.

The number of minutes passed is the sleep onset latency at that particular hour on that particular day.

Sleep onset is the transition from wakefulness into sleep.

Its twin is the hypnagogic state at sleep onset; though often conflated, the two states are not identical.

Dement advises against doing these evaluations at night when sleep onset latency can naturally be lower, particularly in older people.

The goal is to reduce sleep onset latency and encourage sleep maintenance throughout the sleeping period.

Physiological studies have tended to concentrate on hypnagogia in the strict sense of spontaneous sleep onset experiences.

Melatonin for chronic sleep onset insomnia in children: a randomized placebo-controlled trial.

It appears that AIWS is also a common experience at sleep onset.

Immediately after this peak, bright light exposure has its greatest phase-advancing effect, causing earlier wake-up and sleep onset.

Sleep debt has been tested in a number of studies through the use of a sleep onset latency test.

Of course, in humans as well as other animals, such a hormone may facilitate coordination of sleep onset.

In sleep laboratory studies, nitrazepam decreased sleep onset latency.

The key questions here are to identify which parts of the brain are involved in sleep onset and what their mechanisms of action are.

Exercise-induced insomnia is common in athletes in the form of prolonged sleep onset latency.

Agomelatine also induced an advance of the time of sleep onset and of minimum heart rate.

Observations are made of the time taken to reach various stages of sleep (sleep onset latency).

Active or REM sleep onset will persist for the first twelve months of life in normal infants.

A regular arousal time helps strengthen circadian cycling and leads to regular times of sleep onset.

Sleep onset problems?